Glory to God. Your article is very insightful, and for me very true. I have been saying the same things since about 1989, in “the church that is is their house“(ie:Bible study). The world(stock)market is the great harlot, and many oversees have modified so much righteousness to accommodate sin, that many professing Christians are settled and spoiled in a cheap faith, and a no cost salvation.
What the individuals do, the nation becomes; and many in our nation have loved this secular worlds ways, and have been on the cutting edge of advancing more and more secular practices and principles, and as for professing Christians, many have gone along for the ride. As for Truth, it is thrown down in the streets, and as you had said, an unmovable stand needs to be taken for the love of the Truth in Christ Jesus. No more softness and flattery should be spoken, rather as Paul was with the Corinthians, we “should use sharpness”, and “not spare”, and “bewail many”; for the Truth´s sake, and no longer spare for hurting people´s feeling´s, because they need to hear the whole Truth of a matter, and no more word´s to persuade them to stay. Christ would never do that, rather He would tell the Truth of a matter, and if some did not like it, they may leave, for Christ´s Church is a voluntary one.
This discussion should continue, because many have turned aside to vain jangling, and no longer endure sound doctrine, and have turned their ears from the Truth, and have turned to fables; Why? Because they´ve become too accustomed to loving pleasures more than loving God, and are no longer content with food, clothes, and shelter, which are the only necessities in life; and to condescend(lower themselves)to men of low estate. Christ said that He is the one at the table serving, not the one being served; so then what ought we do?
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.